David Nixon OBE

International guest artists from across the globe will join Northern Ballet at Leeds Grand Theatre on 14 March 2015 for their Sapphire Gala, in celebration of the Company’s 45th anniversary. Performers at the gala will include Royal Ballet Principal Dancers Sarah Lamb and Vadim Muntagirov, Principal Artists Lana Jones and Adam Bull from The Australian Ballet, Hamburg Ballet Principal Dancers Carolina Agüero and Alexandr Trusch and Phoenix Dance Theatre.

Northern Ballet is delighted to announce it will introduce a new strand of touring from 2015, widening the Company’s already extensive reach to an impressive 500,000 people from 2015 – 2018 and furthering its commitment to developing new and existing audiences for dance.

On Friday 12 September after that day's performance of Dracula our Artistic Director, David Nixon OBE, will be answering your questions about the production, the costumes, choreography, characters and more.
We invite you, whether you are attending that performance or not, to submit your questions for David.

If you love fashion, our forthcoming production of Cleopatra is a real treat and as we are opening at Leeds Grand Theatre this Thursday, I thought I would give you a fashion fix with the beautiful costume design sketches.